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[Ardpeaton]

Please help me.  In May 2010 I purchased a Lacie Blu-ray firewire disc burner drive which was bundled with Roxio Toast Titanium 9.  I now have some High def video and want to create a Blu-ray disc but when I try to burn to Blu-ray video in Toast I get this message; "The Toast 9 Titanium HD/BD Plug-in is required to create Blu-ray Video..".  After some research I learned that this Toast 9 Titanium HD/BD Plug-in was at first available to download from the Roxio site for free and then for $19.95.  Now I can't find it anywhere!  I understand that the plug-in is included with newer versions of Toast and I would buy a newer version except that those versions require OSX10.5 or higher and my Mac G5 is a PowerPc and does not have an Intel processor so I am stuck with OSX10.4.11 which only supports Toast 9.  Can anyone tell me where I can get or buy the Toast Titanium 9 HD-BD Plug-in for Blu-ray video burning.  I've tried Lacie Tech support and where I bought the burner and they said Roxio was my only hope of getting this Plug-in.  Roxio support told me "Toast 9 is a legacy product. A legacy product is a product which has been discontinued and no longer sold by Roxio."  Perhaps there is another Blu-ray DVD burning software product which creates Menus that will work with the Lacie burner but also works with Mac OSX10.4.11. Does anybody have any suggestions?  I would buy a new computer but I'm unemployed. Thanks in advance.

[Ardpeaton]

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After learning my Power PC G5 could run Leopard, I upgraded to OSX 10.5.8 and bought Toast 10 with the Toast 10 HD-BD Blu-ray Plug-in. But I still couldn't get it to burn Hi-Def Blu-ray video.  The problem was a combination of conflicting codecs, and a bug in QuickTime 7.7 when I upgraded to Leopard 10.5.8 (not Snow Leopard).

I discovered the QuickTime 7.7 problem from the Mac Forums.  Apparently a lot of people are pissed off because the upgrade to QuickTime 7.7 rendered a lot of movie file types un-recognizable in QuickTime Player, Final Cut Studio, and I suspect my version of Toast 10.  This problem seems to affect not just Leopard but Snow Leopard and Lion among others.

The easy part was removing the older suspect non-apple codecs from the Mac HD>Library>QuickTime folder.  The hard part was tryiing to install an earlier version of QuickTime 7.6.4 without completely re-installing the Leopard OS software.  An earlier version installer of an Apple app won't work.

I learned that there's a Shareware program called Pacifist which takes elements from the earlier QuickTime installer and replaces the newer versions problem files. The version # still says 7.7 but the elements have changed. See this link:

http://www.digitalre..._quicktime.html

After rebooting, The QuickTime Player and more importantly Final Cut Pro 6.0.6 supported all the video files.  Toast 10 still had a problem until I trashed the Toast plist and pref files in the User>Library>Preferences folder and then re-installed Toast 10.0.9.  Now everything works!  My sincere Thanks for everyone's advice.